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I'm not sure you got the concept of point-in-time recovery... it relies on having hot backups followed by archivelog backups. It seams to me you are attempting point-in-time recovery with a cold backup.

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These are the instructions I found on-line, granted they are old but what step am I missing.

Incomplete Recovery Using Time-Based

Scenario: The current time is 12 pm on 9-Mar-01 and someone dropped the
EMP table around 11:45 am. The table must be recovered.
If the database is open, shut it down using either the "normal" or "immediate" options: SVRMGR> shutdown normal;

Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.